With more than a billion people and some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Africa is on its way to becoming the next China or India in terms of explosive growth and rapid adoption of new technologies. Numerous obstacles have to be overcome before that can happen, so many obstacles that they can seem insurmountable at times, but there’s definitely progress being made. For evidence of this, you need look no further than the Africa Internet Group (AIG), a company that was founded in Africa and has risen to become the continent’s first billion-dollar company in just four years by creating a network of e-commerce services across Africa.
